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💬 Just a Small Update, and a Big Thank You

Dear friends, kind hearts, and everyone who has stood with us,

When I first opened my heart to the world and shared our story, I never imagined the amount of love and solidarity we would receive. Thanks to your incredible support, we’ve now reached $12,837—a milestone that brings real light to some very dark days.

From the deepest corners of my heart, thank you.

💔 A Journey of Loss, but Also of Strength

As many of you know, I’ve lost 25 of my loved ones during this devastating war. That grief lives with me every single day. It’s in the silence that once held laughter, in the empty spaces where we once gathered as a family.

But through your help, I’ve also felt something else: hope. And that hope is priceless.

“21/Oct/2023 Before It Reached Us: The Day Our Neighbor’s House Was Destroyed” A quiet moment of fear, filmed just before everything changed.

“22/Oct/2023 The Morning After: Our Family Home in Ruins” This is what was left behind after the bombing of our home.

🌿 What Life Looks Like for Us Now

Despite everything, we’re still here. Still surviving. Still hoping.

But things have only gotten harder.

The war has returned, more brutal than before—and for over a month now, Gaza has been completely sealed off. No food is coming in. No medical supplies. No aid. No trade. No one is allowed to leave, and no one is allowed to enter.

We’re trapped.

🏚 We live with the fear of tomorrow, every single day. Airstrikes, drones, and the uncertainty of what might happen next. 👨‍👩‍👧 Our family is forever changed—we haven’t just lost people; we’ve lost pieces of ourselves. 📉 Basic needs go unmet—even clean water feels like a luxury now. Medicines, if they exist at all, are unreachable.

And yet…

Your support reminds us that we’re not forgotten. It reminds us that someone, somewhere, is still listening. That someone still cares. That we’re not completely alone in this.

Every message. Every share. Every dollar. It tells us: You’re walking this road with us. And that gives us the strength to keep going.

💖 What You Can Do

If you’ve already donated—thank you beyond words. If you can share our story again, it could reach someone who can help.

Even $5 means warmth, comfort, and a chance to breathe a little easier.

✨ Why It All Matters

This isn’t just about reaching a fundraising goal. It’s about surviving war with dignity. It’s about believing in tomorrow. It’s about making sure my daughter grows up knowing that the world did not look away.

Thank you for your kindness, patience, and belief in our humanity. You’ve helped me find my voice—and I will use it to keep hope alive.

🙏 From the Heart: A Quiet Apology

There’s something I need to say—something that’s been on my heart for some time.

When I first began sharing our story, I didn’t know what the right way was. I was scared, grieving, and trying to protect my family in any way I could. I reached out to many people, hoping someone, anyone, would see us. In that process, I now realize I may have overstepped, and I might have made some feel overwhelmed.

If that happened, I am truly sorry.

Please believe me when I say it was never out of disregard or pushiness. It came from a place of fear—fear of being forgotten, fear of not being able to keep my family safe, fear of watching everything I love slip away in silence.

I’m learning as I go. I’ve slowed down. I’m more mindful now, trying to share our journey in a way that feels respectful of the space and hearts of those listening.

If my words ever came at the wrong time, or in the wrong way, I hope you can understand where they came from—and I hope you can forgive me.

Thank you for seeing past my mistakes. Thank you for still being here. It means more than I can ever explain.

With love and endless gratitude, Mosab and family ♥️

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Zoe Bedeaux Apartment. (Apartamento Magazine, 2011)

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watched eyimofe (2020) today and i’m so glad i did. the esiri brothers did a wonderful job translating both the wealth inequality in lagos as well as the afterlives of slavery and colonialism w/o relying on gratuitous and unending violence.

i would’ve loved to see more re: wealth gap but i still feel like it was done pretty well, maybe it’s my own insight that makes me feel so. on the afterlives of slavery and colonialism…as well as the joys and beauty of the wayward(ified) girls living and surviving in the wake…

i feel so much towards this film. it touches on migration, sex trafficking from black afrika to western europe, death and its mundane cruelty, grief, family.

while i really enjoyed mofe’s (jude akuwudike) part, rosa’s (temi-ami williams) part spoke to me so much. her little sister grace and her friend, tolu. their laughs and them dancing outside their tenement. taking pictures and playing dress up w rosa’s clothes and wigs…grace looking at lucia playing and maybe wishing that was her, the innocence she probably associates with it. i don’t want to spoil it but really those parts were everything to me.

and then to rosa herself, trying to make a better life for herself and grace. she’s obviously willing to do anything but when given the ultimatum from mama esther and realizes that grace would be put at risk as well, she chooses marriage as a safer choice…both mama esther and mr vincent feel entitled to her body and labor but she feels mr vincent is a safer choice since there will be stability and grace won’t be hurt and can live comfortably…so many times i’ve seen this happen with my own family…

definitely one of my favorites ever.

what christina sharpe said abt black annotation and redaction…ways of seeing / imagining blackness otherwise

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Theodora on the set of Maryyx2 “Dont Know” music video. Lagos Nigeria 2023

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mamalles ancestrales (2019) dir. tabita rezaire

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“Blue & Gold Series” ~ The Face Magazine (1985) by Rotimi Fani-Kayode ⌘ Blue-painted figures dissolve into metallic light

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I just discovered two of the people on the campaign I created were murdered. One of them was a child.

I feel like an absolute ghoul posting these conversations online but I need people to understand what is happening. I've been talking to Abdul and his friends almost every day since last year. I know them.

Every time the messages stop I know I may never even find out what happened to them. When and if they start again, I find out who is left.

Five people still need immediate transport from an area scheduled for bombing.

2/7 people evacuated

$2080/$7000

Vetted #47

For anyone who has donated or shared so far: you can and are helping. Please, please don't stop supporting these campaigns in any way you are able.

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i want 2 start taking every new day as a new reality. not necessarily a continuation of yesterday or some sort of past present, but a fresh start, a step towards my further becoming.

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One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana by Deborah Luster

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becoming and becoming and becoming

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Oduduwa Hall of Obafemi Awolowo University, ile -ife, Nigeria.

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Igbo Shrine house for the god Eke, Uke, 1966. Photo by Herbert M. Cole.

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something really good and unexpected is about to happen